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Trinity College, Cambridge. Dated 15 December 1907 - Is glad he has arrived safely at Mombasa; has accepted the chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Liverpool, which has no salary but no responsibilities, plans to lecture on totemism; has a plan of promoting anthropological research from Liverpool, would like to fund an eighteen month expedition to Western Australia by [Baldwin] Spencer and [Francis] Gillen and would like to fund Roscoe so that he could give himself wholly to anthropological work in Central Africa; asks how long he is committed to the C.M.S., and thinks they have not kept faith with him; asks if he would work exclusively in anthropology, and for details on where and when he would work in Central Africa and for what money; his stepdaughter [Lilly Grove] is doing well at her school in Bristol as a French teacher and will join them for Christmas; hopes Mr [Geoffrey Francis?] Archer will send more notes on the Lake Rudolph tribes; [Alfred] Hollis, [C. W.] Hobley, and Lord Mountmorres (via Dr Richard Caton) have distributed a large number of anthropological questions.
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The name Mountmorres is corrected at bottom in R. A. Downie's hand.
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- Roscoe, John (1861-1932) clergyman, anthropologist (Subject)
- University of Liverpool (Subject)
- Spencer, Sir Walter Baldwin (1860–1929) Knight, biologist and anthropologist (Subject)
- Gillen, Francis James (1855-1912) Australian anthropologist and ethnologist (Subject)
- Grove, Lilly Mary (c 1880-1919) stepdaughter of Sir James George Frazer, translator (Subject)
- Hollis, Sir Alfred Claud (1874–1961) Knight, colonial governor (Subject)
- Hobley, Charles William (1857-1947), colonial administrator (Subject)
- Caton, Richard (1842-1926) physician, physiologist and Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Subject)
- Montmorency, William Geoffrey Bouchard de (1872-1936) 6th Viscount Montmorres (Subject)
- Archer, Sir Geoffrey Francis (1882–1964) colonial governor (Subject)